Dividends

RIORio Tinto

StockNYSEUnited KingdomMaterialsEU retail investors: available

+3.2% today · +30.9% over a year

No score: too little data.

Quality: among the best of its peers. Dividend yield 5.38%.

Rio Tinto (RIO) dividends: trailing yield 5.38%, Dividend Safety 36/100.

Trailing 12-month yieldA high yield can signal risk rather than safety: payouts may be cut, and part of a fund's distribution may be your own capital returned.
5.38%
Forward yield (next or typical regular payment, annualised)
4.88%
Dividends per share, last 12 months
$4.65
Payments per year
2
Dividend safety0–100 points: payout versus earnings and cash flow, debt, cut history, years without a lower dividend and how stretched the yield looks.
36 / 100
Unsafe

Yield after tax (estimate)

Before tax → After tax, CY non-dom

Last 12 months
5.38% → 4.43%
Forward
4.88% → 4.02%

Of every 100 paid out

Withheld at source (United States)
15.00%
Cyprus Special Defence Contribution (after credit for foreign tax)
0.00%
Cyprus GeSY health contribution
2.65%
You keep
82.35%
  • Source country assumed: United States (from the issuer’s data). Depositary receipts and companies listed outside their home country may be taxed by that home country.
  • US rate 15 % assumes a W-8BEN form is on file with your broker (US–Cyprus treaty); without it the US withholds 30 %.
  • GeSY 2.65 % applies to dividends and interest of every Cyprus resident, domiciled or not, up to €180,000 of income a year.

Cyprus resident, domiciled: 4.43%

Estimate, not tax advice: published rules as of 2026-10-14 for the profile chosen; your broker’s withholding and your own situation can differ. How we estimate tax

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Dividend profile

5-year dividend growth (per year)
−13.5%
Years without a lower dividend
1
Years without a cut of over 10 %
1
Payout ratio (earnings)
76%
Payout ratio (free cash flow)
137%

Annual total matches the company's SEC filing

Our rules see a meaningful risk that this dividend is cut.

Caution. Dividend Safety below 40 points. More in the glossary →Dividend Safety below 40 points.

Caution. Dividends exceed earnings or free cash flow. More in the glossary →Dividends exceed earnings or free cash flow.

Dividends per share by year

Sum of payments by calendar year of the ex-date; the current year is left out until it ends.

Dividends per share by year: 2017 $2.36, 2018 $3.07, 2019 $6.35, 2020 $3.86, 2021 $9.63, 2022 $7.46, 2023 $4.02, 2024 $4.35, 2025 $3.732017: $2.362018: $3.072019: $6.352020: $3.862021: $9.632022: $7.462023: $4.022024: $4.352025: $3.73

Payment history

Amounts are per share on today's share count (adjusted for splits), before withholding tax.

Status
14 Aug 202625 Sep 2026$2.11RegularVerified3
06 Mar 202616 Apr 2026$2.54RegularVerified3
15 Aug 202525 Sep 2025$1.48RegularVerified3
07 Mar 202517 Apr 2025$2.25RegularVerified3

Each payment is checked against up to 3 data feeds. Several feeds can share one upstream, so Verified needs two independent ones. Verified: two or more sources agree. Single source: not cross-checked yet. Sources disagree: the median is shown. Announced: declared, may still change.

What dividend safety is made of

0–100 points: payout versus earnings and cash flow, debt, cut history, years without a lower dividend and how stretched the yield looks.

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